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Grafana vs SigNoz
Grafana focuses on dashboards and requires separate data sources; SigNoz provides built-in ingestion, storage and alerting.
GrafanaOpen-source dashboards and observability
SigNozOpen-source observability: traces, metrics and logs on OpenTelemetryWhich to pick
Pick Grafana if you want…
- Open-standard full-stack observability
- All-in-one observability stack
- Integrations with Prometheus or Slack (on Grafana's list, not SigNoz's)
Pick SigNoz if you want…
- Unified OpenTelemetry observability
Side by side
- What it is
- Grafana:Grafana Cloud is an open-source-based observability platform that unifies metrics, logs, traces, profiles and business data.
- SigNoz:SigNoz is an OpenTelemetry-native observability platform offering APM, logs, traces, metrics, alerts and AI-assisted debugging.
- Best for
- Grafana:Open-standard full-stack observability
- SigNoz:Unified OpenTelemetry observability
- Who it’s for
- Grafana:Developers, SREs and teams needing full-stack observability and cost-optimized telemetry.
- SigNoz:DevOps, SRE and engineering teams needing unified observability.
- Pricing
- Grafana:Freemium
- SigNoz:Freemium
- Plans
- Grafana:Free $0 · Pro $19 per month + usage · Enterprise $25,000 per year spend commit
- SigNoz:Teams $49/month per month · Community (Self-Hosted) Free
- Open source
- Grafana:Yes, 77,033 GitHub stars
- SigNoz:Yes, 32,258 GitHub stars
- Works with
- Grafana:OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Kubernetes, Slack
- SigNoz:OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes
Grafana features
- AI Assistant. Ask natural-language questions, build dashboards and run investigations directly from Grafana, Slack or the terminal.
- Adaptive Telemetry. Automatically identifies low-value data and aggregates it, cutting telemetry spend by up to 80%.
- Full-stack observability. Unified view of metrics, logs, traces, profiles and synthetic monitoring on a single map.
- OpenTelemetry-native. Native support for OpenTelemetry and Prometheus with hundreds of plugins and integrations.
- Cost Management. Pay-as-you-go pricing with volume-based discounts and a free tier that includes all services.
- Compliance & Security. FedRAMP, NIST-100, PCI-DSS, GDPR and SOC-2 certifications for enterprise use.
SigNoz features
- APM & Tracing. Collect and analyze traces with up to a million spans, showing latency, errors and service dependencies.
- Log Management. Columnar log storage with built-in trace correlation and fast query via PromQL or ClickHouse SQL.
- Metrics & Alerts. Metrics ingestion with usage-based pricing, plus threshold, anomaly and Apdex alerts.
- AI Assistant (Noz). Chat-based AI teammate that can query telemetry, investigate incidents and build dashboards.
- LLM Observability. Native telemetry for OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Gemini and other LLM services.
- Infrastructure Monitoring. Kubernetes, host and cloud metrics displayed alongside application signals.
- Dashboards & Templates. Reusable dashboard templates for services, infra, databases and LLM usage.
- Compliance & Security. SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, data residency in US/EU/India and SSO/SAML support for enterprise.
Grafana vs SigNoz FAQ
Is Grafana or SigNoz free?+
Grafana has a free plan and paid plans. SigNoz has a free plan (Community (Self-Hosted)); paid plans start at $49/month (Teams).
Is Grafana or SigNoz open source?+
Yes, both are open source: Grafana (grafana/grafana on GitHub, AGPL-3.0 license) and SigNoz (SigNoz/signoz on GitHub).
Do Grafana and SigNoz integrate with the same tools?+
Partly. Both list OpenTelemetry and Kubernetes. Grafana also lists Prometheus and Slack.
On DevHunt
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